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     Continuous Liquid                                        ◦ The latest innovation in Vat Photo
       Interface                                                   polymerisation technique which is 100 times
       Production (CLIP)                                           faster than the traditional SLA technique.
                                                                ◦ The technique was put forward by a less
                                                                   known company Carbon3D.
                                                                ◦ In  this technique the laser projector is placed
                                                                   at the bottom and the vat resin filled in a
                                                                   container has an oxygen permeable window
                                                                   between the laser projector and the resin.
                                                                ◦ The oxygen permeable window allows faster
                                                                   continuous building of the 3D model and is
                                                                   able to change pulses of the ultraviolet
                                                                   radiations as well.
                                                                ◦ The oxygen permeable window creates a
                                                                   dead zone between the remaining liquid
                                                                   resins other than the resin exposed to the
                                                                   radiation.
              Figure 5.2 : Continuous                           ◦ This allows to break through the traditional
              Liquid Interface Production                          layer after layer building of SLA technique.
              (CLIP)                                               Due to continuous building process, the 3D
                                                                   model is built faster.
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